he was then seconded to the nse staff which is a collection of the brightest people in our governmenten he saw something wrong going on, he said to himself, look. brian, every soldier who sees something illegal or unethical can go to the inspector general, can go to the staff judge advocate, can write their congressman, they can demand open door hearings with the commander one above the problem level, and they can't be accused of disloyalty for doing that. they're upholding army values. and that's what lieutenant colonel vindman was doing. i thought he is an honorable, impressive guy. what congressman nunes was doing deliberately was being, trying to isolate him from appearing as a member of the armed forces. the most respected institution in american society. so nunes did it deliberately. and then i think they sent chris stewart out there, very impressive, air force officer, author, successful businessman, they said send stewart out there to try to knock him back. i was very proud of this officer for responding the way he did. >> general, i correctly remembered today, you came on thi

a small cabal the state department and nse bureaucrats who didn't like trump for his policies. yet, every single one of them, when pressed by the republicans, had to admit, no bribery, no extortion, no quid pro quo, no impeachable offense, and theen media thought, wow, with headlines that are incomprehensible. not a single -- not a single witness could or did accuse the president of criminality.ri only a single witness had directly spoken with or met with the president about any of these issues, and he said, no, the president didn't do anything. he didn't do anything. we look at ukraine, we get in these lectures from the witnesses, the democrats, ukraine needed the aid. they needed offensive military aid. we dated for geopolitical reasons. there witness today, fiona hill, she was just -- i can't believe the president did this. look at what he's doing, he's empowering the russians, the russians -- and she wrote a few years earlier a long op-ed saying, don't give the ukrainians the military aid they are asking for. as a matter of fact, the democrats and their great leader, barack

i just for the life of me cannot understand why someone who generally has a pretty good nse of things is making such a devastating decision like trying to do what he is doing withrt te rup-- wiith the uighurs. laura: 75 years ago this week the first concentration camp in western europe was discovered by the allies. natzweiler was one of the smalle camps and one of the deadliest. boris pahor was imprisoned at natzweiler. he is believed to be the oldest living survivor of the nazi concentration camps. the bbc has been to meet him. reporter: boris pahor spent much of his early life standing up to fascism and the nazis who occupied his hometown, trieste in italy. he was a prisoner here at natzweiler. although r was one of the deadliest of the nazi concentration camps. he grew up in a thriving slovenr commity, bmussolini's fascis came and burned their cultural center to the ground. for seven-year-old boris, it seemed like the end of the world. when the nazis came to trieste, boris joined the resistance, but was arrested by the gestapo. i visited him at his home. he recalled the moment of h

works for the office of management and budget involved in the holding up of these defunds for ukraine's nse. >> this is change the dynamic? we are hearing nancy pelosi use different language like briberyd and not just pro quo. is that a pr change or do you substance of this impeachment investigation? >> the language of the constitution says treason, bribery,igh crimes and misdemeanors. no one since medieval times had a sharp sense of what was meantn by high crimes misdemeanors. there was a phrase that used to get it done at the convention in 1787 when ey wrote the constitution. it is a phrase that has some utility then and le doesn't mean much to pe now.if they have to impeach president trump using language of that kind, it seems vague and hard to understand for most peopleth. if can define something he was doing as bribery and the republicans rejected that out of hand saying there's so hebriber, and there could be cast in that kind of terminology it would theoretically be more powerful. >> you mentioned mark lowe what do weexpect next week? >>tu day, wednesday, and thursday hearings with e

. >> he said there's53 different opinions about what institutes anofmpeachable nse. is abuse of power an impeachable offense? i think if there was a abuse of power that was iolved in a violation of the law, then yes. so trying to define what an abuse of power is i going to be one of those things that you're going to also have 535 dferent opinions on. >> an abuse of trust, as alexaider hamilton and many legal scholars say is also grounds forpe hment. it doesn't just have to be a criminal violationa >> the cri violation, that's my definition. >> to be clear, from your perspective, an abuse of power is not, for you, an impeachable offense. the united states president has to be proven to have broken a law or committed a cre. >> i thi the abuse of power or committed a crimes ultimately the same dothing. t know what the scenario is that you have an abuse of power that's not a violation of the law. >> it may not be illegal to ask a foreign leader to open an investigation into your chief political opponent, but it could be argued that is an abuse of power. >> can also argue

well, it is today was a good day in the nse that for the first time the american people have the opportunity to season good news and bad news. the good news is that they could see two very distinguished public servants who have had 30-plus years from each of serving our coury, certainly with bill taylor on the battlefield and nows a diplomand same with george kent. reallyerfic diplomats. and i think it disavows what the president keeps insisting, that they are part of the deeptate. i hope they are part of the state that represents the united states globally, that we have people of this caliber who are willing to serveer forlow competition compared to what they might otherwise earn out of the ive sector, but to be able to have people like that who devoted their lives to publ service, that is the good news. the bad news is that we see how the system can be either circumvented or manipulated by having either a shadow,r o shady foreign policy carried out by the president's personal attorney and those he is trying to pushof aside in termhe established authorities, with all of theti exp, push them

prevent the truth from coming forward and i think in many ways it mistah nse the change that needs to happen the accountability that should occur. as i do pushes for accountability for a husband stuff she's also trying to recover from the devastation that's caused her family bill also everything. from this. very month so much basically homeowners. you know we were going like from house to house but like my kids house for it's. he was the breadwinner he. started driving we were because after my husband passed away we didn't have insurance i had no way to bury him and. we had to get out and do car washes. we did there are we so plates we went on the court because they begged for. the bed. trying to bury my home to give a proper burial. when you look into these stories one by one around the country and you talk to the parents the family members the friends the siblings. you're going to hear similar stories just like rattles from all over the country this is new it shouldn't happen there really are very few safeguards obviously the prisoners have nothing to say about whether this company

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tim morrison of the nse and bill taylor, the ambassador.ake from this transcript is how little sondland knows about anything. he is the classic donor turned ambassador. he's ambassador to the eu. and he's asked in the deposition, do you know about borismo, the energy company that employed hunter biden, do you know about them and corruption. he said, well, no. do you know about the oligarch who owns that, who was accused of corruption? he said no, never heard of him. and he just didn't seem to know much of anything that was going on and what he did know, he knew from press reports, which can sometimes be unreliable. so it's really striking how in the dark this mans was about a lot of things. maria: all the more reasons the republicans will say they need to question the whistleblower. fox news is not naming the whistleblower. the washington examiner did name the whistleblower. i know that. so tell us what you can about this person. because at this point, i mean, we are journalists, we need to understand better where this person is coming from

. >> reporter: vindman was so concerned he went to the nse lawyers. >> it was inappropriate. it was improper for the president to request -- to demand an investigation into a political opponent. >> raise your right hand. >> reporter: later that day former u.s. envoy to ukraine kurt volker testified alongside former senior fse director tim morrison. volker a witness the republicans had been counting on said he is now aware of a request for an investigation into the bidens, though he claims he didn't realize it at the time. >> in hindsight i now understand others saw the idea of investigating possible corruption of the ukrainian company in burisma as equivalent to investigating vice president biden. i saw them as different. >> house democrats inched even closer to the president by next calling gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the european union. sondland is the only witness so far who spoke directly to president trump about investigations. he previously said it was crystal clear no quid pro quos of any kind. but he then reversed his testimony, admitting in his opening st

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colonel vindman is a director in the eurasia direct rate at the nse.administration. and so, his job after a telephone call like that is to sit in the white house situation room with other members from the interagency, from the state department, from the pentagon, from the cia, and to do the debrief on that phone call. i did that all the time. my staff did that all the time. so that he was told not to brief them is unusual, and it means that the rest of the u.s. government doesn't know what u.s. policy towards ukraine is, right? when the president speaks, he makes policy. and two, i just think it underscores, you know, the paradox or hypocrisy here. if the call was perfect and everything's fine, why were they going to such great lengths to not reveal the facts of that call? >> former ambassador michael mcfaul, our conversations are always illuminating. thank you so much. >> certainly. >>> coming up next, elizabeth warren's medicare for all plan. will voters buy into it. >>> plus, a new warning from isis. did president trump's tough talk light a fuse? um

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, i am stuck on this issue of you didn't see anything wrong with the call, but you went straight to nse legal to report it. is that your testimony today? >> yes, sir. >> thank you, sir. i yield back. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. morrison, and to both of you, thank you so much for your service, thank you for being here. has been a long day. just a follow up on the question from my colleague, you responded earlier to a series of questions about the call and basically saw nothing wrong with it, yet you skipped your chain of command to go to legal counsel to find out what to do because you were concerned about the political fallout, not about anything being inappropriate or wrong with the call, is that correct? >> i don't agree with the premise, no. >> can you tell me why you felt the need, you saw nothing basically wrong with the call, yet you skipped your chain of command to go to counsel because of what? what was the reason for that? >> i don't know -- i don't agree with the premise. i didn't think i skipped my chain of command. >> who is your direct report? >> the deputy national sec

massive cover-up of a democrat cia operative which ties to brandon puritt ties to biden, it ties to nsemer staffers on schiff staff. of course they will protect this guide. of course the media will protect this guy because the whole house of cards comes down if he becomes the blue dress if you we dress in this case, the clinton matter. next, the constitution. i hear these legal analyst and they say, look, it is whatever the hell says it is when it comes to impeachment. who do they quote? the great jurist and constitutional scholar jared -- gerald ford -- gerald ford. they have to read the constitutional convention. they actually ought to study it and they ought to look at the language and the constitution. does the constitution say impeachment is whatever the house of representatives says it is? note! treason, bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors. the democrats think they have found something, bribery. they talk about bribery. even as legal analyst talking about bribery's. the legal analyst former prosecutors, judges have no knowledge of the constitution, no experience, no dealings wit

we can go into detail -- >> you believe in all three of those cases, those type ofof nses occurred?tely. we can go into details with every single one, where we've seen exculpatory information that was not brought to bear. we've seen lies being told by senior officers to protect therc tion of the institution and also perhaps to protect their own careers where you've had appeals which should be identifying all these wrongdoings that were not even alloweto go forward. biometric evidence proved that the so-called civilia that we ordered to be kill by lawrence were not civilians. these were enemy combatants. when brought to the appls court, they say they would not dive into the abyss of biometrics, which is bizarre. this is how we solve cases with d.n.a. and skin cells,omg off of improvised explosive vice's that have killed americans. same in goldstein's case where he ambus and killed an enemy combatant. next thing you know, he's being brought up on murder charges. in the investigation, they fou no evidence to support this allegation other than matt said he killed an enemy combatant, whi

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. >>> ervin instructed to go report something to the nse lawyer before?irst time i had been instructed to go. >> and why did he send you to report this to the lawyer? >> well, he clearly wanted to have himself on the record as not being part of what was basically an agreement to have a meeting in return for investigations. >> joining us now is congressman sean patrick maloney who's a member of the intelligence committee. sir, thank you for being here. i'm sure you'd rather be asleep. >> i'll confess to being a little worn-out. but it was an amazing week and it's because of brave people like the one you just showed. and starting with marie yovanovitch and all the way through, lieutenant colonel vindman, ambassador taylor. i think on behalf of all of us who had the privilege of listening to their testimony, they're brave americans and doing the right thing. and their bosses are running for cover. and that's one of the real hallmarks of this week is that we've got great professional career foreign service officers. thank you all the people around the world w

we kept the leadership of the state department and the nse informed of our activities. they knew what we were doing and why. and secretary pompeo essentially gave me the green light. i mentioned to vice president pence before the meetings with the ukrainians that i had concerns that the delay in aid had become tied to the issue of investigations. again, everyone was in the loop. >> most striking is that after all this public testimony the president has mounted no actual defense. just the opposite. in blocking sworn testimony from all of his witnesses, he's prevented them from denying his involvement in the scheme. and that speaks volumes about his own guilt and awareness of it. for more i'm joined by betsey swan, david jolly, and michelle goldberg, "the new york times" columnist. michelle, thank you for joining us tonight. this is the summation of two weeks of testimony. now for your summation. did the majority of members of the house intel committee get across the truth in the last two weeks? >> i think it depends on who were the audience for the truth. there's no doub

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eisenberg, john eisenberg, in the nse council office. >> thank you. mr. nunes? >> i assume we are at 8 minutes, there? >> i don't cut off a witness in the middle of the answer. you may proceed. >> sorry, that was a long answer. >> mr. jordan? >> mr. holmes, why didn't your boss talk about it? >> what's that, sir? >> i didn't your boss bring up the call that you overheard? the reason you are here today? you are there closing witness. yet their star witness, their first witness, ambassador taylor, didn't even bring it up. when we deposed you, you said this was extremely distinctive experience. one of the most remarkable events of your life. you described it like this. "after that call happened, i told others at the embassy about that call." then he said he went on vacation i told several friends and family about the call. then you come back on august 6 then you tell ambassador taylor about the call. the new art deposition, you said nursing today as well, "i repeatedly referred t to the calling meetings and confirmations, conversations with the president's interest

the rotarians because they since i'm not ideological -- independents and libertarians because they nse i'm not ideological. so then i run against him, we d.c.,nd then i come into january, 2021 and everyone knows how i won. americans want that freedom dividend. democrats and progressives will be like, i love the dividend because it is going to make children and families stronger and healthier. but then the republicans in congress are going to say, wait a minute, this helps rural areas. this helps red states on the interior. this helps places blasted by automation loss in manufacturing jobs. am i really against the dividend? can you imagine mitch mcconnell standing there and saying, this cash is going to hurt you? [laughter] mr. yang: it is really hard to make that argument. you go to kentucky. this will be the fun part. i'm your president, thanks to you all. i'm like, hey, let's rebuild our economy from the ground up. then mitch mcconnell is in kentucky being like, i don't like it. then i go to mitch's district in kentucky, and we have a gathering. do you know what his offices and phone

according to the sworn testimony, bolton had told a colleague to brief nse lawyers about exactly whatthe hill, democrats say they are going to use this against the president, saying in a stateme statement, quote, we regret mr. bolton's decision not to appear voluntarily but we have no interest in allowing the administration to play rope-a-dope with us in the courts for months. rather, the white house instruction that he not appear will add to the evidence of the president's obstruction of justice. as for president trump, he has been focusing his attention today in part on twitter, at least, to a story that first broke in "the washington post" of which other outlets have followed, and according to the reporting, the president wanted the attorney general, that man right there, bill barr, to hold a news conference after he had released the transcript of the july 25th call between himself and president zelensky, and wanted the attorney general to say that the president did not break any laws during that news conference. here at the white house, they are pushing back hard on this one and s

nse transcript shows no linkage in the two individuals have no pressure, linkage to an investigation. ms. williams, after the call on the 25th, we know colonel vindman talked to several people, after the call on the 25th, hominy people did you talk to about the call? >> i did not speak to anybody about the call. >> i yield back. >> mr. heinz be mckay asking a man in his consent to enter to the performance review into the record. >> may i inquire colonel vindman whether he like us to do that if you be happy to or preferred not to be on the record of the event you. >> i guess with reductions it has pi in it and should be free under protected and elements that are irrelevant are the actual narrative. >> did you read the relevant portions? that would be the short version and there's other paragraphs. >> all withdraw my request. >> thank you both for your p testimony. >> you join the service in 2006? >> correct. >> prior to being that you worked as a field representative for the bush cheney campaign and then held a political appointment and the department of homeland security undersecretar

governments for some yea rs, conservative governments for some years, so your not play with the co nsestreet is deteriorating badly. why is that? i don't know, maybe taxis, rates. so argue strongly to get customers? i think every business on the high street struggles nowadays. is there a single thing that government could do to help you? like i say, the conservatives are reducing corporation tax, we have rates in the industry which have a big impact. they have brought in guidelines on taxation and health and safety for those. you're feeling quite threatened by that? yes. what about your fellow farmers? are more of those tempted side? somewhere tempted by leeds, the ones that i know that voted to relieve have actually either sold up or cut back. it is like a turkey voting for christmas. what the human race can do, we might be better outside europe, there is no solid basis for that. i am yet to see edward put a solid agut up for leaving europe. you're far better working together asa you're far better working together as a common community that we are split up. at —— i am yet to see anyon

that president zelensky should want to do this himself, morrison said he told ambassador bolton and nselier, but president trump was adamant that president zelensky himself had to clear things up and do it in public. president trump said it was not a quid pro quo. i believe this was the same conversation between ambassador sondland and president trump that mr morrison had described to me, september seven. ambassador sondland also said he had talked to president zelensky and andriy yermak, and had told them that although this was not a quid pro quo, if president zelensky did not clear things up in public, we would be at a stalemate. i understood a stalemate to mean that ukraine would not receive the much needed military assistance, ambassador sondland said this conversation concluded with president zelensky agreeing to make a public statement in an interview on cnn, shortly after that call, i express my strong reservations in a text message to ambassador sondland, stating that my nightmare is that they, the ukrainians, give the interview but do not get the security support. the russians

>> it should be recorded by the nse, correct. >> ms. williams, do you have any idea that whoever is part of this inquiry, has lied to this committee? >> i do not have any testimony -- >> do you have any evidence, though that, they perjured themselves? >> no, because i don't have the transcripts. >> lieutenant vindman, are you aware that anybody in this party perjured themselves? >> no, i don't. >> i yield my testimony. >> i thank the gentleman. i want to make one thing clear for folks watching today. bribery doesn't involve a quid pro quo, bribery involves the conditioning of a specific act for something of value. an official act may be a white house meeting. an official act may be 400 million in military aid, and something of value to a president might include investigations of their political rival. the reason we don't ask witnesses, who are fact witnesses, to make a judgment about whether a crime or bribery has been committed, or more siskly, another way to raise prices. that's why we don't ask you those questions. for one thing, you